shaun said about 2 years ago or at 9:59PM on Sunday, July 30 2006.
Swans is a good band. This much you should already be aware of. I made a mix of all my favourite Swans songs and this is what happened:
- Turn to Stone
- Goddamn the Sun
- Our Love Lies
- Blood on Your Hands
- Picture of Maryanne
- The Golden Boy That Was Swallowed by the Ocean
- Blind
- Empathy
- Volcano
- You're Not Real Girl
- Eye of Nature
- Helpless Child
I've been meaning to have a good listen to this band for about 18 months now. I don't know why I haven't.
Don't know if you need recommendations, but Soundtracks for the Blind is my favourite. You have to be careful what you get because early Swans is a very different (and unrepentingly abrasive) beast than the later material. Unfortunately there is no compilation that covers every base.
early swans, yes. jarboe swans, no.
that's me, anyway.
Helpless Child is the quinessential SWANS song. It is brutal, and beautifil, and amazing, and tragic... it is everything powerful music aspires to be.
Soundtracks for the Blind is AWESOME
this band changed the way I appreciated music, in any form.
McGauz, I hear you. Soundtracks For The Blind changed my outlook too. As did Children of God.
I have Public Castration.......Geez that album is tough work.
tougher work is "Kill The Child".. live in Europe 83-84.. all one continuous track... music to commit suicide to
or BRUTAL murder heheh
Their early (pre-Children Of God) phase is quite phenomenal: Filth. Cop. Greed. Holy Money. Public Castration. Brilliant! As someone good with words once put it: It like watching a snail drag itself over a razorblade.
hand hell- exactly. and why does the reissue of public castration appear to be a straight-from-vinyl affair? why not remaster??
If I was ever to use the seed of a man for purposes unknown, Michael Gira would be my choice. Filth is one of the finest albums ever written.
Ewww.....I'm not exactly sure what you intend to do with Gira's seed fasty, but it sounds ethically questionable and somewhat gross!
these guys scare me a lot. i shall listen to them when it's sunnier.
Roli Mosiman is a fucking genius!
Hehe, wow, I was up and about early this morn!
He's my kind of lad Hnad Hell.. there was a nice interview with hi once, I still remember the last question which was one of those "If you stuck on a desert island what three things would you take".. he opted for a big bag of Soy Beans, a Pen and comfy socks...
See, THAT'S disturbing!!!!
hahahahahahahahahaha fucking SOY BEANS!?!?!?
Well, he could raze the jungle on this island, plant the soybeans and sell them to multinationals to finance his rescue.....or somethin' (while wearing compy socks and sticking a pen up his rectum).
comfy
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I was reading some of Michael Gira's prose that appears in the book Tape Delay, very disturbing reading, he gives the Marquis De Sade a run for his money.
i can only read one or two stories from his book the consumer before i need to put it down and go outside in the sunshine for a while.
i told michael that, and he laughed.
interesting point: nick cave originally wanted him to get up and read selections from the book at ATP. but gira said no.
He always did. I have some old stuff of his in Forced Exposure.
yeah I've read that about his book. Couldn't be worse than some of Peter Sotos (ex Whitehouse dude) stuff surely?
I'm gonna try and line-up a Gira interview for Cyclic, you'll have to give me some tips ADM
You know, I can't imagine what he would be like to talk to. Sharp as a razor, of course, but apart from that- scarey/intense or friendly/relaxed?
friendly, block. he's a perfect gentleman, in fact. and humbler than you might expect.
he's not too keen on talking about swans, though.
...which is fair enough.
When did you talk to him, adam? Got a link?
yeah when will the story be published ADM? (I assume it's Drum??)
it was only last week, block. it's for a drum media article. i think it's being published in the next couple of weeks. i'll post the article here after it's been printed.
You're gonna scoop shaun, then?
Yeah, post it, I'd be interested.
i'll scoop him like he's never been scooped before.
MICHAEL GIRA IN BRITISH INDIA GUEST-VOCAL SHOCKA
MICHAEL GIRA SIGNS TO MODULAR.
he'd go down a treat at Nevereverland 09 between The Presets and Jack Johnson
four days!
Fuck! I just got a whole bunch of Swans stuff off a mate. Having only really only heard ''Love of Life'' it was somewhat a revelation.
''Raping A Slave'' shall haunt me for days...
raping a slave still haunts me almost a decade after i first heard it.
I look forward to be haunted for years to come.
did he make the album w davendra?
gira worked on devendra's first album. and maybe his second two, i can't remember now. devendra also played in angels of light for a spell.